Links for Friday 7 January 2011 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Rory Hyde Projects / Blog Â» Blog Archive Â» âKnow No Boundariesâ: an interview with Matt Webb of BERG London: Nice interview with Webb about design and BERG and stuff. (via Preoccupations)
ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine: Looks fascinating - a PHP/MySQL project you can install which then grabs your Twitter and Facebook network info and processes and graphs it al. (via Preoccupations)
Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com: Long article about what happens to peoples’ online lives after they die. Good stuff, although I find so many companies’ focus on safeguarding passwords odd; it doesn’t seem like the big problem in this area. (via Haddock)
That Gormandizer Man: How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!: A lovely and interesting email from TfL. I love how historic numbers are maintained/adapted. It’s the kind of thing that has no direct benefit to a company’s profit, but it makes the world a better place.
Simon Reynolds’ 2010 (Playlist by philgyford - Spotify): I made a playlist of all of the albums and tracks Simon Reynolds liked most from 2010. Well, those I could find on Spotify, around 50%.
And Now Presenting: Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China: I skipped this link the first couple of times seeing it, but I’m glad I finally looked. Amazing, stunning amounts of development, largely uninhabited. (via BERG)

7 Jan 2011 at Twitter

11:06am: If Quora follow notifications are an indication of how many friends and strangers are interested in you… more is better! Stop complaining!

11:29am: @pixellent @moleitau Could you see through walls?

12:40pm: Spotify playlist of all of Simon Reynolds' best of 2010 that I could find. Many gaps, but still: http://bit.ly/f7HbTn

12:49pm: I promised Nick Clegg I'd buy him an amazing birthday present but... well, it was only a promise, never mind Nick.

01:21pm: @invisiblecomma I've already done all those searches, but thanks anyway :)

04:58pm: Is it possible to eat too much cake? Only one way to find out. It's been nice knowing you.

07:27pm: @jennylg What browser were you using? Or shouldn't you say? :)

07:30pm: Cake-guilt is going to force me to go for the swim I didn't have this morning because I was too sleepy.

10:22pm: I love it when I switch back to a page in iPad Safari and it reloads, erasing the long post I'd written in an Ask Metafilter form.

Links for Friday 7 January 2011